The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Author/Contributor(s):	Dawkins, Richard
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Date:	10/04/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Edited by best-selling author and renowned scientist Richard Dawkins, this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who's who of scientists and science writers, including Stephen Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Albert Einstein, Julian Huxley, and dozens more. Readers will find excerpts from bestsellers such as Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, Francis Crick's Life Itself, Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey, Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. There are classic essays ranging from Alan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" to Albert Einstein's famed New York Times article on "Relativity."